Fatigue Strength and Stress Distributions of Adhesive/Rivets Combined Joints

Abstract

Adhesive joint and adhesive/rivet or adhesive/spot weld combined joints are getting special attention recently because of their advantage of joining thin steel plate from the viewpoint of high joint efficiency.
In this study, the strength characteristics of adhesive/rivet combind joints were investigated by static tensile and fatigue tests. In addition, the stress distributions of the joints were analyzed by the finite element method. The maximum stress in the adhesive layer was found to correlate with fatigue strength of the joints.